The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-22
TRAITORS TO THE FLAG.
American Women Abroad whose Manners
Discretllt the Whole Sex.


American Women Abroad Whose Manners
Discredlt the Whole Sex.
At foreign watering place lately a
dining-room was furnished with small
tables, at which men sat alone dining.
There came into this room the very
pretty American woman whom we will
call Lady baskerville, with her hands
in her pockets She walked fist to
one, then to another of these tables,
sitting down to each to talk to the men
with whom she was acquainted.
Elbow very American" said an Eng
fish lady who remarked 1t.
mo" said an American lady pres
emit; ''that is treason to the American
flag. You would not see that thing
done at any American watering place.
",Y ct that sort of holiness 1--WE call it
dash) has made the fortune of your
Young country women with the Prince
of Wales, y said the Englishwoman.
Every we'll, them" said the Ameri-
can, tFHtts s 8s4at 1855 II.
Treason doth never prosper; what's the
Why, il It prosper, none dare call II treason
They call it dash, do theyp Let me
hope that some of our young country
women will continue to fail to sue
ceedn .fs.
1t is probable that the very self-con-
sciousness of the desire to be talked
about, even If one is abused, is inherent
in some natures. TWAS that disease
which made Guiteau shoot Garfield,
and which gave us the spectacle of his
horrible conceit during his trial, 1t
would seem as If certain American
beauties who were filling Hombnrg,
Baden. Cannes, Paris. London and
Trouville with stories, were bitten by
this hopeless mad dog, whom no Pas
teur can vaccinate away. The virus
is in the blood; they must be notorious
or nothing! +,
Many are the examples to the con-
trary. Certain young American Prin-
cesses at Rome are models of good con-
duct Many. quiet, amiable, well-bred
American wives of English noblenen
are blushing for the vnlgarity of their
compatriots, Many wife of an Amer
lean minister is shuddering as she sees
the rougcd, vulgar, and loud American
whom she is expected TO receive "and
call her cousin, and OF whom she
hears the constant reproach whispered
behind a fan; ''Oh, she IS so very Amer
lean, you know" ,s4s-aa
This quiet lady from Vermont or
Massachusetts, who may be representa-
ing America, longs TO say: ooh! no,
she is more unlike my America than
any other country and yet she has to
learn, ms we all do who travel, that
there is development on the CONT
nent of American eceentricity in cer-
tain women which we never see ut
home. And it is worth asking why, In
the first place, ignorance of conven-
tionality is the first and final cause of
many of the sins. A woman comes from
some circle which is not considered the
best in America; by her beauty and
"good clothes" she attracts attention
at a foreign Watering place; she finds
soon that the more she Is unlike other
people the more men notice her. She
accordingly makes rare show of her
self, gaining false position, which
lasts her perhaps two seasons; or. il
she is very lucky and has money, Ii
perhaps buys her an impecunious no.
BILE and title. She soon quarrels with
the gentleman thus landed and then.
pursues the career of q titled adven-
turess, which some women have rem
dered very conspicuous and somewhat
profitable TO themselves. But although
every city teens with adyenturesses,
the American adventures does some-
thing which shocks European ideas at
every turn, and her whole country has
to suffer for it. The best and the most
delicate, the most peaceful and the
most refined American woman is
classed in a certain general sense with
those women who are traitors to the
flag. Mrs. Sherwood, IN Boston 1raU-
elley.